Jacob Lew
Jacob Lew
Jacob Joseph "Jack" Lewis an American government administrator and attorney who is the 76th and current United States Secretary of the Treasury, serving since February 28, 2013. He served as the 26th White House Chief of Staff from 2012 to 2013. Lew previously served as Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton and Obama Administrations, and is a member of the Democratic Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth29 August 1955
CountryUnited States of America
We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the president's budget is a comprehensive and responsible plan that will put us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the next few years - a down payment toward tackling our challenges in the long term.
I've never seen a constructive Social Security debate that started with one side digging in, in one place and another side digging into another.
The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.
We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt.
Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.
There are lots of ways to work together.
We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.
The reason to deal with Social Security is that it is a system where we have a tradition and history of making sure it is solidly funded for 75 years. At the moment, we look out and we see it is solidly funded until 2037.
It is time for the general fund to pay the Social Security fund back.
It's going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.
Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before.
There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'
There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.
The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.